October 20, 2025

Securing Old Accounts

1 hour 4 minutes

Now that we’ve tracked down all our old online accounts, it’s time to make them more secure and review the data they contain. We should download a copy of that data for safe keeping before we ultimately delete or suspend the accounts. We’ll discuss this next step in our journey of reducing our online data footprint – our Data Diet.

In the news: Windows 10 support has officially ended; seniors targeted with malware from Facebook groups; Tile trackers can also track you; massive Salesforce data leaked after refusing to pay ransom; dangerous Discord breach; Apple, Google to reluctantly comply with new Texas age law; California enacts age-verification law; EU Chat Control defeated; California makes GPC universally available;
largest CCPA fine to date levied against TSC.

Article Links

Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deaths https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/windows-10-support-ends-today-but-its-just-the-first-of-many-deaths/

Seniors targeted in global Facebook scam spreading new Android malware https://therecord.media/seniors-targeted-facebook-android-malware-scam

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say https://www.wired.com/story/tile-tracking-tags-can-be-exploited-by-tech-savvy-stalkers-researchers-say/

ShinyHunters Leak Data from Qantas, Vietnam Airlines and Others https://hackread.com/shinyhunters-leak-data-qantas-vietnam-airlines-others/

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare https://www.404media.co/the-discord-hack-is-every-users-worst-nightmare/

Apple and Google reluctantly comply with Texas age verification law https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/apple-and-google-reluctantly-comply-with-texas-age-verification-law/

California enacts its own internet age-gating law https://www.theverge.com/news/798871/california-governor-newsom-age-gating-ab-1043

Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/citizen-protest-halts-chat-control-breyer-celebrates-major-victory-for-digital-privacy/

California Governor signs first-in-the-nation privacy bill into law https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/california-governor-signs-first-in-the-nation-privacy-bill-into-law

CPPA fines Tractor Supply Company $1.4 million for privacy violations https://therecord.media/ccpa-tractor-supply-privacy-fine

Tip of the week: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/secure-old-accounts/

Further Info

How to freeze your credit: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/credit-freeze-now-is-the-time/

Setting up Global Privacy Control: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/how-to-enable-global-privacy-control/

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Table of Contents

0:00:00: Intro

0:00:28: News preview

0:02:31: Win10 support ended

0:08:19: Seniors targeted with malware from Facebook groups

0:12:00: Tile trackers can also track you

0:19:51: Massive Salesforce data leak

0:26:50: Dangerous Discord breach

0:32:35: Apple, Google to comply with new Texas age law

0:39:47: CA enacts age-verification law

0:44:56: EU Chat Control defeated!

0:49:33: CA makes GPC universally available

0:55:02: Largest CCPA fine to date

0:57:02: Tip of the Week

1:01:41: Wrapping up

1:02:29: Looking ahead

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